Lessons learnt after many years staring at two incomplete and unpublished novels

I learnt that even though blogs are great platforms to build an audience or promote books, they can easily eat up all the time you need as a writer to complete your book and eventually publish it. May be the reason this happens is because:

Many writers find blogging fun and promising than sitting down to add more pages to their manuscript.

Some writers can’t stand the rejection slips that sometimes follow a three – four month wait after a few sample chapters and a book proposal is sent to a publishing company or agent. The wait or rejection makes blogging so inviting that a writer may take several years before completing their book or writing their next book.

Sometimes a writer may doubt their ability to publish a book on their own and still make their work have a great impact like some of the works published by the big publishing companies.

Don’t wait for a big blog audience before you finish or launch your book. The best thing you can do is to keep writing your book even if you still don’t have the size of the audience you yearn for. Your blog wins. Your manuscript wins. Two birds with one stone (you). Sounds like something you want? Please, say yes! Ha!

Write down two pages. One should be titled Why I blog and the other one Why am I writing this book. Why do this? Many writers never really give these questions a lot of thought. But I do hope you see the benefits that come with doing this exercise.

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